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While Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg pumped big bucks into the 2020 presidential election to help people get out and vote, his company has begun restricting Instagram users’ access to political information in their feeds ahead of November’s election.
Instagram appears to have changed users’ algorithm settings to the default position of limiting political content – and users have been furiously reacting to the change online.
Meta announced on Feb. 9 that a change to both Instagram and Threads was in the works, saying in a press release that it no longer wanted to “proactively recommend” political content from accounts users don’t follow.
Meta announced that it would start restricting political content related to “laws, elections, or social topics” from accounts not being followed by other users, but claimed there would be no restrictions on accounts users already follow.
However, the report explains that instead, Instagram appears to have automatically switched all users’ accounts to the default position of limiting political content.
Users now much go in and change the settings on their accounts if they don’t want political content limited.
Some users are reporting having problems when they try to change the setting, and one user fumed, “The entire app crashes when I go to political settings. That’s wild.”
Instagram is now trying to suppress political content just months before the next presidential election.
Why is Meta attempting to censor the democratic process?
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) March 23, 2024
The Associated Press published a report with instructions on how to get around the political news limitation:
Here’s how to get around Instagram’s political curbs in just a few steps.
1. Open up the app on your smartphone. Then tap the three-dash menu at the top right.
2. Navigate to “settings and privacy,” then choose “content preferences,” then open the “Political content” menu.
3. Find and turn on the “Don’t limit” option.Once that is done, you should once again start to see posts relating to government, elections and other political matters shared from accounts that you don’t follow flowing through your feed.
One Tech Tip: How to get around Instagram’s new limits on political content https://t.co/5HKzupqEuk
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 23, 2024
Instagram put up a new “limit political content” feature in settings and set it as the default for tons of accounts. The timing of this feature is very suspect to me, but anyway here is how to fix it pic.twitter.com/wPofpiFwZk
— michaela okland (@MichaelaOkla) March 22, 2024
Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr. had just two words for Meta’s latest action: “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”
ELECTION INTERFERANCE! https://t.co/s2P3SsqsC1
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 23, 2024
Instagram users fume as app begins limiting political content https://t.co/FuSF7oY7jx
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 23, 2024
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